[Python] UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 0: unexpected...

I am using FastText.load_fasttext_format()to load fastText Official Japanese trained model (300 dim) in Google Colab.

Here is my code.

model_path = "/content/drive/MyDrive/IDR/rakuten/wikipedia_fastText/cc.ja.300.bin"
model = FastText.load_fasttext_format(model_path)


And here is the encoding error.

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UnicodeDecodeError Traceback (most recent call last)

<ipython-input-7-61d7c85f09b2> in <module>()
2
3 model_path = "/content/drive/MyDrive/IDR/rakuten/wikipedia_fastText/cc.ja.300.bin"
----> 4 model = FastText.load_fasttext_format(model_path)

2 frames

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/gensim/models/fasttext.py in _load_dict(self, file_handle, encoding)
818 word_bytes += char_byte
819 char_byte = file_handle.read(1)
--> 820 word = word_bytes.decode(encoding)
821 count, _ = self.struct_unpack(file_handle, '@qb')
822

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe3 in position 0: unexpected end of data

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